134 PROCYON. 



rest of underparts grayish white; tail with six blackish rings and a 

 black tip; ear black on basal half of outer surface, white on apical half. 

 Ex type in United States National Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 900; tail, 290; hind foot and claw, 

 132. Skull: Occipito-nasal length, no; Hensel, 114.3; zygomatic 

 width, 85; intcrtcmporal width, 27; length of nasals, 34.6; length of 

 upper molar series, 37.9; length of mandible, angle to symphysis, 68.4; 

 length of lower molar series, 42.5. Ex type in United States National 

 Museum. 



Procyon lotor ochraceus Mearns. 



Procyon lotor ochraceus Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVII, 

 1914, p. 64. 



Type locality. Sonoyta River near Quitobaquita, at Monument 

 No. 172, 421 miles west of the Rio Grande, and 113 miles east of the 

 Colorado River. Altitude 1181 feet. 



Genl. Char. Similar to P. lotor but color more ochraceous, and 

 with less black. 



Color. Black face-mask as in raccoons generally; cinnamon -drab 

 on upper side of muzzle; side of face benzo-brown; sides and under 

 side of muzzle, angle of mouth and lower jaw white; crown whitish, 

 grading to purplish gray towards occiput; under fur drab ; upperparts 

 buff, the long hairs tipped with black on thoracic region and flanks but 

 with brownish black on middle of lumbar and lower thoracic regions; 

 no black at base of ear; limbs gray on outer side, grayish white on 

 inner; feet clay-white; underparts grayish white, the light drab under 

 fur showing everywhere; tail above yellowish white with five rings 

 of brown and yellowish hairs; beneath whitish drab; ears and whiskers 

 white. Ex type in United States National Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 750; tail, 310; hind foot and claw, 

 115. Skull: Occipito-nasal length, 101.2; Hensel, 99; zygomatic 

 width, 73; intertemporal width, 23.5; length of nasals, 28.4; length of 

 upper molar series, 34.8; length of mandible, 83.1; length of lower 

 molar series, 41. Ex type in United States National Museum. 



Procyon lotor californicus Mearns. 



I'roe.yon lotor californicus Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVII, 



1914, p. 66. 



Type locality. Near Monument No. 258, Mexican Boundary, San 

 Diego County, California. 



Genl. Char. Similar to P. I. psora, but smaller and paler in color. 

 Skull narrower; bullae compressed laterally. 



Black face-mask as usual, bordered by a whitr band; 



